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Fiona McIntyre’s Greenish Deep & others

Fiona McIntyre’s Greenish Deep & others

Fiona McIntyre is a painter, drawer and printmaker. Her uplifting painting Greenish Deep is currently on show as part of the group exhibition Arboretum at the Royal West of England Academy, now entering its final week. Much of her work focuses on plants, often using vivid colour and flow to depict their great vitality. Artist’s website I …

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Daffodils & Leeks

Daffodils & Leeks

Happy St David’s Day. Where would the UK be without beautiful Wales. To celebrate, more daffodils and leeks in art. The Welsh for leek is cenhinen and the Welsh for daffodil is cenhinen Pedr which translates to Peter’s leek. It is thought that the latter was adopted as a second national emblem by accident, as over …

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Our trumpeters in gold

Our trumpeters in gold

Daffodils are out in London. Let’s celebrate. Daffodils are the common name for plants in the genus Narcissus in the amaryllis (Amaryllidaceae) family. These two names are often used interchangeably, but in the UK we usually use daffodil to mean the completely yellow variety with the extended trumpet flower head. If you want to buy …

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Tea with the Frida (and her plants)

Tea with the Frida (and her plants)

Artwork by Ingrid Cole who recently moved to the steampunk town of Oamaru.

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Plant shapes to colour-in

Plant shapes to colour-in

A garden can help with relaxation and inner peace, but if you don’t have a garden to hand, or the garden you do have is too cold and wet right now, then a good alternative is a garden to colour-in. The book Secret Garden by Johanna Basford has sold over a million copies worldwide and …

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Nicola Simbari: The plant colourist

Nicola Simbari: The plant colourist

Italian painter Nicola Simbari (1927-2012) translated the energy, vitality and brilliance of plants onto canvas with a palette knife. Grasses, trees, bouquets, fruit – plants as the main subject or as decorative appendage to equally colourful women or landscapes – both draw the eye and steal the show. These artworks are a tonic for a …

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Plant design by La Scarlatte

Plant design by La Scarlatte

La Scarlatte is the name of Amsterdam based artist Pauline Teunissen’s one-woman design studio. Her work consists of detailed, elegant, hand-drawn designs inspired by nature. She creates individual artworks as well as surface patterns for product packaging and book covers. For inspiration she cycles over the canals of Amsterdam in search of hidden urban visual …

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John Pearce’s plant soliloquies

John Pearce’s plant soliloquies

If you visit the newly re-hung Guildhall Art Gallery, you will find a painting by John Pearce sharing space with artworks by Rossetti and Millais. While these great artists have undoubtedly rendered plants to beautiful effect, you can only stand back and admire, whereas Pearce’s plants, always the main subject, draw the viewer into the scene and …

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Susan Pearson: Why I paint flowers

Susan Pearson: Why I paint flowers

When I was younger, I always had my Pentax camera (with zoom lens) around my neck. I took many many pictures of just about everything. What caught my eye was the pattern of Fritillaria, the chocolate lily. Delicate flowers, a simple two flower vase arrangement, were magic to me. Soft and slightly out of focus. …

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Suthipa Kamyam: Detailing plant magic

Suthipa Kamyam: Detailing plant magic

Bangkok based illustrator and artist Suthipa Kamyam depicts elements of the natural world in great detail, letting form and shape dictate her vision. She brings intensity and density to trees, movement and mellifluousness to flowers and foliage; capturing the living, breathing, often hidden, energy of it all. Her reduced colour palette and whimsical names add even more emotion to …

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